Richard Madeley looked like he was in a bad way after undergoing an operation on his arm (Image: GC Images)

“My personal 'snap' of the day. Titanium plates await!” he tweeted, sharing a selfie with his 208k Twitter followers.

This week, he underwent a two-hour operation to put screws and plates in his arms.

And the operation has left the TV presenter in terrible pain.

“Never known pain like it,” he tweeted.

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Last year, Richard insisted the online trolling of his daughter Chloe doesn't bother him, because she doesn't let the criticism affect her.

Chloe, 28, has her own fitness business and documents her training regime and diet tips online and after putting herself in the limelight, the gym bunny has received abuse o n Instagram and Twitter.

Appearing on Loose Women the presenter and journalist was asked if, as her father, it upset him that she received such violent hatred online.

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Insisting Chloe was made of stronger stuff he replied: "Chloe and I mentally are quite similar.

"We both have the same attitude, we don't obviously like trolls, but we don't give a stuff. We don't take what they say seriously."

Stacey Solomon, said "she can brush it off her shoulders," Richard agreed: "Yeah because they're sad people."

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"If you think about the kind of person, whose day is made bright by writing this kind of stuff, what kind of background do they have? What do they actually do with the rest of their day?" he explained.

"But I never feel threatened by them and I don't think Choe does either."